in the process of his tooth being pulled out. Once again the nurse comes out to fetch a large pair of ( ) and later on she takes in a ( ) . A little boy confesses that he pretended to have ( ) , because he did not wish to go to school. The loud ( ) and screeching from within the room makes everyone leave the ( ) , one by one.
Finally there are only two women in the waiting room, one of them being Joe’s wife. She weeps ( ) about her husband. But Joe comes out and explains that he had shifted his ( ) to the evening and had been given some pills for the pain. After they leave, the dentist comes out and locates the key of his tool ( ) .
He had been trying to open it using the hammer, the pliers and the hacksaw only in vain. The woman with the photographs is surprised to see that the ( ) had moved quickly and she was the next patient to go in. hammer patient hacksaw cabinet frightened queue worried waiting room pliers tooth photographs clinic toothache sawing appointment Glossary groaning − crying in pain dreadful − extremely bad ice-lollies − flavoured ice or ice cream on a stick weeny tug − small pull gas − anesthesia scream − a very funny thing ferrying − carrying queer − strange writhing − twisting the body from side to side agony − severe pain sulking − being sad and silent blurred − hazy, not clear . Complete the summary of the play, choosing the appropriate words from the list given below the passage.
A number of patients wait at the ( ) of a dentist’s clinic. Everybody is tensed at the thought of a painful ( ) being extracted. One of the women is bent on showing everyone her ( ) . After the arrival of the dentist, Joe, the first ( ) is called in.
Sometime later, the nurse comes out and goes in with a ( ) . Everyone is ( ) at this, imagining Joe being subjected to a lot of hammering -C-SR-The First - - :